Explore " eastern curlew" with insightful episodes like "Cooeeing Eastern Curlews" and "The bird and the businessman: A billionaire developer's plan to build on a protected wetland" from podcasts like ""Noisy by Nature" and "Background Briefing – The Whistleblowers"" and more!
Ann is walking along a muddy wetland, with some black and white birds standing out in the shallow water. Ann can hear insects, clicking crabs and some birds piping away when a skinny brown bird with a loooong beak flies down onto the mudflat. Itâs an eastern curlew arriving from the other side of the world!
Itâs only 30 kilometres east of Brisbane but the economic gap between Cleveland and the Queensland capital is massive.
Now an influential developer wants to revitalise the coastal town by building a $1.4 billion precinct on the foreshore.
Thereâs just one problem: the regionâs wetlands are protected under an international treaty known as the Ramsar convention.
So who prevails in a battle between birdlife and business? Steve Cannane investigates.
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